UNITED STATES v. CASTILLO

No. 21-527 August Term, 2021.

36 F.4th 431 (2022)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Chayanne CASTILLO, AKA Bambi, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 8, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shiva H. Logarajah ( Karl Metzner , on the brief), Assistant United States Attorneys, for Damian Williams , United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Appellee.

Daniel Habib , Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before: Sack, Lohier, and Nardini, Circuit Judges.


In this appeal, we must answer a now-familiar question: Does a criminal defendant's prior conviction qualify as a "crime of violence" and thus subject him to a higher sentence for a subsequent federal conviction? In Defendant-Appellant Chayanne Castillo's case, however, the answer depends on two peculiarities of...

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